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🚧 bumpy staten island to orlando tech house

Charlie Duncker, born on staten island, based in orlando, and the maker of one of the biggest house records of the decade. Do It To It, his rework of cherish's 2006 single with cherish singing on it, came out on thrive music on 20 august 2021.

what it did: number nine on the uk singles chart with twenty seven weeks on it, eight weeks at number one on the official dance chart, a beatport number one, gold from the riaa, dance song of the year at the 2022 iheartradio awards, and a billion plays on spotify.

he came out of bass music and switched during lockdown, which he has been straightforward about. three months into quarantine, he said, he started making a lot more house music, and it felt good because he felt more alive.

I've got a hundred songs, but I never show them to anybody because I'm super insecure about them and I don't want to hear their opinion about them.

acraze to dancing astronaut, 29 july 2022

since then: Believe with goodboys in 2022, Bandit with don toliver on cactus jack in 2024, a remix of sam smith and kim petras's Unholy that has seventy four million plays of its own, and Apple Cider with Westend, further up this page, on catch & release in august 2025. 2026 has been Whatcha Do To Me on insomniac in april, then The Switch and Pump That Body with rello.

he headlines the concourse project in austin on 15 august, with rello supporting, and plays silo in dallas on the twenty ninth.

from
staten island, based in orlando
broke through
Do It To It featuring cherish, august 2021, uk number nine and riaa gold
releases on
Thrive Music, Insomniac Records, Catch & Release, Cactus Jack, and self released in 2026
this summer
the concourse project in austin on 15 august, silo in dallas on the twenty ninth

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